Timothy King

"Captain Timothy King (4th) was commander of the Brig Defiance during the Revolution, with 12 guns and 70 men, as shown in Connecticut records on page 604. 'Connecticut Men in the Revolution.' The Defiance was a privateer."

Charles Ethelbert Willis and Frances Carolina Willis, comps. A History of the Willis family of New England and New Jersey and Their Ancestors.... (Richmond: Whitmore and Garrett, 1917), 352.

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His brother-in-law, steamboat inventor John Fitch, held Timothy and his wife Sarah Fitch King in particularly high regard, and wrote about them in his autobiography:

“My oldest sister Sarah was married to one Timothy King, a poor industrious man of Windsor to which my father had great objections. . . . These two persons was the greatest ornimant that ever adorned my fathers family. My sister was I think the most manly generous spirited woman I ever saw not only to me but also the others. And probably might take it in some measure from her husband as good wives indeavor to recommend themselves to their husbands by adopting their sentiments."

Frank D. Prager, ed. The Autobiography of John Fitch. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society for Promoting Useful Knowledge, vol. 113 (Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1976), 35–36.